The Big Picture
Subtitle: Money and Power in Hollywood
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: January 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780812973822
Subjects: Performing Arts/Dance; Corporate Finance; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Business Aspects; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Business Aspects; Film & Video - General; California; Economic aspects; Finance; Los Angeles; Motion Picture Industry; United States
First sentence: On March 20, 1948, the elite of Hollywood, braving freezing temperatures and gale-force winds, filed past the newsreel cameras into the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the twentieth annual presentation of the Academy Awards.